Tick Lock
囿，2025
作品介绍
《囿》由两组相互关联的摄影作品构成。一组为人为搭建的静物摄影：鸟被置于笼中，怀表被链条束缚，鸟笼的阴影覆盖并压向象征时间的表盘。另一组来自我备考期间的真实观察：从书桌前透过百叶窗望向窗外，海鸥在被竖直窗格切割的天空中飞翔、停驻，又离开画面。
两组作品共享相似的视觉结构。鸟笼、链条、百叶窗与摄影画面的边界都形成了近似牢笼栏杆的“框”；鸟通常象征自由，却始终与这些结构相遇。怀表与天空则对应两种时间经验——一种被刻度与机械测量，另一种通过移动、等待与变化被感知。
一组作品主动建构“囚禁”，另一组却在现实生活中发现它。在窗边的图像中，海鸥实际上位于开放的天空，而我的观看位置却处于百叶窗之后。于是，自由与束缚的位置发生倒置：被框住的并非窗外的鸟，而是站在内部观看的人。
作品由此将“囿”从具体的空间限制延伸至时间本身。生命始终处于时间的框架之中，我们可以移动、停留和选择，却无法站在时间之外。摄影同样是一种框定：每一次快门都从不断展开的时间中截取一个有限瞬间，在无数可能的轨迹中，留下那一条真正被经历过的路径。
Statement
Tick Lock brings together two connected groups of photographs. One is staged: a bird is enclosed within a cage, while a pocket watch is restrained by a chain and covered by the cage’s shadow. The other emerged while I was preparing for exams, photographing seagulls from my desk through window blinds as they flew, paused and disappeared across a sky divided into vertical frames.
Both groups repeat similar structures of enclosure. Cage bars, chains, blinds and the photographic frame divide and restrict space. Birds represent freedom, yet repeatedly appear within these boundaries. The pocket watch and the sky offer two ways of experiencing time: one measured by a clock, the other felt through movement, waiting and change.
One group constructs confinement; the other finds it in everyday life. In the observational photographs, the seagulls are outside in the open sky while I remain behind the blinds. The relationship is reversed: the bird is free, while the observer looks out from inside the frame.
The work extends this idea of enclosure from space to time. Life is always situated within time: we can move, pause and choose, but we cannot step outside it. Photography creates another frame, capturing one moment from time as it keeps moving forward. Among countless possible paths, the photograph keeps the one that was actually lived.